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I can't test the background remover because I have light background but have two thin strips of dark either side

i might be able to add ability to specify custom scan area/margins, which take care of situations like yours.

or I could get a bigger piece of paper for the background lolseriously though, that could be helpful - I'm thinking of reducing the scanning area to A4 cause I rarely if ever scan more than that, and the full area of the glass doesnt get scanned anyways

Rotation tool is working very well -only thing (very minor) is it can take a while to make the rotation if you choose 'Auto-detect' - might be a good idea to show an hour glass/waiting symbol ?

I was able to narrow down the scanning area - I presume in the 'Scan specific area' that the 'Left' & 'Top' boxes create a margin that isnt scanned? Worked here anyways

Background removal - I cant get this to work - scanning dark image on white (paper) background - it could be the fact it's paper - it's texture does get scanned which probably makes it difficult to remove - will try with a sheet of photo paper later

Background removal -I cant get this to work - scanning dark image on white (paper) background - it could be the fact it's paper - it's texture does get scanned which probably makes it difficult to remove - will try with a sheet of photo paper later

the new system lets you tweak the tolerance interactively; its that number down on the scanning toolbar.as you change that now, youll see the selection box try to pick out the foreground. try values around 140 or so.

1) funny I just did exactly the same scan again (rectangular card, at an angle - needed an angle of -4 to correct skew) and auto-detect skew didnt work this time . . no idea why - instead of the required -4Â° rotation, it rotates image by 0.0999999999999943Â° (!)

Background removal -I cant get this to work - scanning dark image on white (paper) background - it could be the fact it's paper - it's texture does get scanned which probably makes it difficult to remove - will try with a sheet of photo paper later

the new system lets you tweak the tolerance interactively; its that number down on the scanning toolbar.as you change that now, youll see the selection box try to pick out the foreground. try values around 140 or so.

A problem with Background removal:

it doesnt seem to work if the image is skewedit doesnt seem to work then if the image is rotated and the image 'frame' is skewedi.e. it requires a non-skewed image in a non-skewed frame to work properly

1) funny I just did exactly the same scan again (rectangular card, at an angle - needed an angle of -4 to correct skew) and auto-detect skew didnt work this time . . no idea why - instead of the required -4Â° rotation, it rotates image by 0.0999999999999943Â° (!)

same scan again and it worked this time - an hourglass would definitely help though - I have clicked it and nothing has happened (could be my keyboard's fault of course, at times I find I have to be assertive with it)

with select foreground & remove background selected a selection box snaps to one corner of the scanned card

it only works by selecting a foreground recentangle.but i've not had any trouble if the main image is straightened and the frame is angled.you might make sure you have the proper scan bed color set in options.

may i suggest you not use auto remove backgroun on the scan options.instead, choose select foreground onlythen use the MANUAL foreground select threshold on the scan toolbar to experiment with threshold level.

Maybe i was not clear enough. I could work in SC even when the scanner dialog was open. But when i then try closing SC i get a full hang of SC.

If you think, this is teasing, i must reply...if SC depends on the opened dialog (and this seems to be true or why would SC refuse to close normal if not depending) it should safely disable its main window and do a Bell() when clicking sth. in it, as it is with every modal dialog within an app. Then the user is aware of "something is open anywhere" and can close that first.

Joto, if you can reproduce the problem in latest Screenshot Captor versions let me know -- as far as i can tell SC does open the scanner dialogs modally, and shouldn't let you interact with it until you finish scanning. It sounds like perhaps something else went wrong and the scanner dialog being open was just a coincidence.

Occasionally I have found an SC bug where some SC dialog pops up modally but gets hidden behind sc window and then sc becomes unresponsive (alt-tabbing to SC usually fixes that).

There are plenty of utilities designed to help you scan images with your scanner and manipulate them, some free and some commercial (e.g. Paperport).And most modern scanners come bundled with a scanning utility or two.

So why add scanning functionality to Screenshot Captor?

Screenshot Captor is designed to stay resident in your system tray, and make it easy for you to take lots of multiple screenshots with little intervention.

The scanner functionality in Screenshot Captor follows the same philosophy -- it aims to help you do very quick scanning of multiple documents.

It's also designed to perform the common image corrections, and includes special functions for automatically and manually detecting the foreground of scans, cropping, and adjusting for small rotation alignment problems.

The program also makes it easy for you to do things like:

Save in different formats (including PDF).

Print images.

Email images.

Configure hotkeys to start a capture.

To enable scanning functionality in Screenshot Captor, go to the Scanner Options tabs in the program preferences, enable the scanner features checkbox, and choose your scanner.

Screenshot Captor supports both TWAIN and WIA scanner interfaces, and can be configured to use the native scanner dialog for your scanner or bypass it completely.

Screenshot Captor registers itself as an official imaging application in Microsoft Windows, so if you have buttons on your scanner, you can configure these buttons to trigger an automatic scan inside Screenshot Captor (or manually configure a shortcut that passes the -scan commandline parameter).